The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-02-09
BRIEF JoTTlNcs.

Snow storm all day yesterday, followed by
rain at night.
Detective Ira NJ. True has net and never
had female detective in his employ.
Tomorrow night there will be an excursion
from points along the Maine Central to
Burnham's toboggan slide.
Thatcher Relief Corps will give masked
ball Thursday night. Mr.. Ira F. Clark will
furnish the dance orders.
The steamer State Of Maine and the coal
steamer Allentown were detained in the har-
Dor yesterday by the storm.
The members of the Board of Trade and
of the Merchants Exchange will hold their
annual dinner at the Falmouth Hotel on the
Goth of March.
Mr.. Robert Seeley's hack struck sled be-
longing to A.W Berry on Centre street,
Monday. The sled was damaged, and shaft
of the hack broken.
The Portland Light Infantry veterans will
attend the funeral of Cords L. Longley, at
his late residence on Spring street this morn
ing at 1890 o'clock
Last night number of the bachelors Of
Portland, together with several of the mar
ried gentlemen, gave an elegant ball to their
friends at the Falmouth Hotel The affair
was exceedingly brilliant.
Hon. w. w. Thomas, Jr., delivered his
interesting lecture on ''The Island of Got
land and the Ancient City of Wisby," in the
free Mechanics course, to highly pleased
audience last night.
Professor Harvey McKenna will give two
exhibitions Of billiard playing at Pines
billiard hall, 81 Market Square, Thursday
and Friday. Particulars may be found in
the advertisement
Some early risers may have looked for a
partial eclipse of the moon yesterday morn
ing, though the time from quarter past
three to half past FIVE is not usually con-
sidered agreeable for star-gazing.
Yesterday morning Mr.. Arthur Smith, Of
the firm Of Morrill, & Smith, BARRIERS. was
backing stove with naphtha polish, when
the polish took fire and spread to his clothes.
In endeavoring to extinguish the flames Mr..
Smith burned his hands badly.
Thomas l.. Wilson has been engaged in
beating his living out Of some of the churches
of Portland for some time, but he has finally
been found out He claimed to be bitterly
poor and to have a wife and several children
to support.
On Washington's birthday Grand Canton
Worumbus, No. l, Patriarchs Militant l. o.
0. F., of Lewiston, will give a reception,
emblematic drill and ball to Gov. Bodwell
and staff. Glover's orchestra will furnish
the music.
Sportsmen In some quarters are asking for
a law that the close time on woodcoek may
expire the first or middle of August. Some
claim, however, that law of this kind
would be death to the young cartridges, as
they frequent the woodcock covers in August
and would fall easy victims to the gunner.
Ancient Brothers Lodge, some so in num-
Der, had adelightful time at Auburn Monday
evening. Androscoggin Lodge of that city
entertained them in a most cordial and
elaborate manner. Grand Master f. r. Mer-
rill of this city made an excellent speech.
Six candidates took the initiatory degree.
Captain Vance of the British barque
Northern Empire says that one of the men
who died on the passage from Japan died of
heart disease, and the other of inflammation
of the bowels. The other sickness ON board
was caused, the captain thinks, by the cam
phor in the cargo
Michael Flanagan used hard wood slab
to beat his horse so as to make him pull
load too heavy for him. He broke up several
slabs over the animals back. Yesterday
morning Mr.. Sawyer, agent of the S. p. c.
A, put Flanagan before the court and he
was sent to Jail for fifteen days.
The falling sleet iced the railroad track on
Commercial street so badly yesterday that
the shifting engines found hard work in
hauling the trains across. On one train the
locomotive got stuck at the foot of Moulton
street and was obliged to run over the track
without the cars for some distance before
the train could be again set in motion.